A tribute to Robin Williams

Sunday

Aug 17, 2014 at 6:00 AM

I'd like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to one of the class acts of comedy and drama, Robin Williams.

While he struggled through depression, drugs and booze during his life, I found him to be as quick-minded and humorous as anyone I can remember. Humor and sarcasm, as I've experienced, are ways to cope with the demons.

His performance in "Dead Poets Society" recalled for me my trials and tribulations I incurred during my American and English Poetry class in prep school.

Williams' tragic death was as untimely as anyone's in decades, besides our heroic veterans whom he supported, just as Bob Hope had done in the previous generation.

My heart, deep thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, children, and those who knew him personally.